anecdoton

plural anecdota · alternative anecdotum

1. GrecianalternativeAlternative spelling of anecdote.

   I publish here, as elsewhere in this volume, what is not exactly an anecdoton, but a more original form of a writing already known.

   1897: Texts and Studies: Contributions to Biblical and Patristic Literature, volume 5 (1897–1899), page xlv (also: 1967 &: http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=9Dmv4Q3dg5oC&pg=RA1-PR45&dq=%22an+anecdoton%22&ei=-H5VSdmgLqKIyASO3KDTBA, http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=fAc4AAAAIAAJ&pg=PR45&dq=%22an+anecdoton%22&ei=-H5VSdmgLqKIyASO3KDTBA)

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   9. There is another, in the library of St. German de Prez, about 500 years old. Montfaucon, having met with it, published it¹ as an anecdoton; not knowing that it was Bruno’s comment. It is not indeed quite so full, nor any thing near so correct as the printed copies : but still it is plainly Bruno’s comment. The title, Tractatus de Fide Catholica.

   1823: Daniel Waterland, The Works of the Rev. Daniel Waterland, page 170 ^〃 (also in works from: 1843, 1850, 1856, 2008)

   While on the subject of Olympiodorus, we have a brief word to say in connection with his Scholium on 474 A, which Dr. Thompson conceives to contain an anecdoton from Heraclitus.

   1871: The Academy, № 2, page 356 (J. Murray)

   […] strictly speaking, an anecdoton : the greater part of Jerome’s Notes on the Psalter has long been accessible in the Breviarium in Psalmos which appears among his printed works.

   1895: The Expositor, series 5: volume 1, page 424 (Hodder and Stoughton)

   The publication has not the stirring interest of an anecdoton, especially an anecdoton like that of the Sinai-Palimpsest or the Hebrew Original of Sirach, but it has a threefold importance — linguistical, biblical, and ecclesiastical.

   1900: James Hastings, Ann Wilson Hastings, and Edward Hastings, The Expository Times, volume 11 (October 1899 – September 1900), page 82 ^〃 (T. & T. Clark)

   But inasmuch as my own text was in type before I knew that I had been anticipated in the discovery, and seeing also that the document is one which from its age and character deserves all the attention which students can bestow upon it, I have ventured, with Dr. Mercati’s full consent, to publish the treatise, although no longer an anecdoton, in the pages of the Journal.

   1904: Journal of Theological Studies, volume 5 (1903–1904), page 218 ^〃 (Macmillan)